The Rest Ritual Retreat
A daylong journey into deep rest.
The Rest Ritual Retreat is a daylong, small group journey into deep rest — a return to the body, truth, and enoughness.
Saturday, November 8th 2025
St. Petersburg, Florida
I’m so happy you’re here.
This offering is near and dear to my heart. It is expanding and getting richer with each year.
What if you could immerse yourself in a real portal of rest — softness, slowness, joy — amid the whirl of the world’s noise?
What if you could come just as you are — no mask of perfection, no need to have it all figured out?
What if the idea of slowing your racing mind and tired body wasn’t something to strive for but something you could actually imprint into your system?
A felt sense that rest is safe.
Inside The Rest Ritual Retreat, we will orient to simple pleasures, rediscover the sacredness of the mundane, get curious about our relationship to the quiet, and dive into what nourishment and enoughness feel like.
This retreat is an act of community care infused with intuitive teachings, somatic education, embodied writing practices, meditation, movement and deep rest. It is a day of turning down the outside volume and returning to the body’s wisdom.
This is about reconnecting to your truth from a place of powerful nourishment.
It starts with the choice to opt into deep self-care.
Self-care that isn’t surface-level.
Transformative self-care that radiates from within.
You do not have to earn rest.
It’s yours. Right now.






Meet your guide.
Margo Snipe
I help people expand into their most authentic expression and fullest embodied confidence through writing, movement and reconnection to their bodies.
As a former award-winning journalist, my work has always honored the transformative power of the stories we carry in our bones. Stories can heal. And sharing them — in our words, our bodies, and our lives — is an act of liberation.
For years, I wrote about the depths of the human experience, piercing the surface to hold space for our real, raw truth. My sensitivity to the environment around me shaped my journalism career. As a reporter, I learned the power of witnessing. Since graduating cum laude from Georgetown University with a degree in psychology, my writing has appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, Capital B, CNN, The Marshall Project, and VOX. From a yearlong investigative series that exposed Georgia’s alarming maternal deaths rates to a piece on how Black Americans are healing, my work has always been mission-driven and liberation-based, spotlighting tragedy, trauma and paths towards freedom.
That same thread led me out of full-time journalism into healing work. I originally launched The Stories Within, LLC to support first responders and journalists carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. The wounded healer. I wanted to offer all that I, at one point, needed — a path back to the body, to inner safety, to self.
We work through the body, attuning to the nervous system, releasing old patterns, and creating safety from within. From there, you can lead from fierce, embodied confidence. Where your voice becomes a source of power. Where expression becomes expansion.
With me, complexity is welcome and nuance is cherished. We hold it all — the fire, the softness, the parts of you still becoming.
This is more than healing.
It’s a coming home to the truth of who we are.
Here for you humbly in service and love.
You are not too much. Your stories are powerful. You are powerful.
It is an intimate gathering of embodied movement, truth, writing and ceremony where we will return to what has always held us. The body. The breath. The earth beneath our feet. This is a space to rest, reconnect with what’s real, and reclaim the parts of you that have been waiting to be remembered.
Over the course of our day together, we will:
Gather with an intention-setting opening ceremony.
Enjoy a 60-minute yoga class composed of a little bit of heat-building flow followed by a series of deeply restorative postures to soften your body and your mind.
Rest with tea, nourishing food catered by a private chef and some silence on purpose.
Move with our trauma, grief and rage through Body Temple Dance, an ecstatic, emotional and embodied somatic movement experience created by Adriana Rizzolo.
Create art as an integration and self-expression practice.
Close with a powerfully restful ceremony.
“Rest Ritual came at a time when I needed it the most. Margo holds such a beautiful space to explore how your body, mind, and soul can work together for your protection and rejuvenation when you take rest and acknowledge what you're going through. I loved Rest Ritual and never wanted it to end. I'm glad that I can incorporate these exercises into my life, and I'm glad I did it with a community of support. Margo is a gentle guide who allows you to show up as you are and adjusts to the needs of all who are involved. I highly recommend Rest Ritual for EVERYONE because there will be a time when life gets overwhelming, and going back to the body and rest will help you get through it. This is a safe and beautiful space to learn.”
— Erica Li
Or two payments of $450.
$900
To sign up for a payment plan, just reach out to me, margo@thestorieswithin.com. I am looking forward to welcoming you inside.